Specimens from the 'illustration bunker' of the ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive

From Frog Went A-Courtin', illus. by Rojankovsky (1955). It's in print!

From Frog Went A-Courtin', illus. by Rojankovsky (1955). It's in print!

From Frog Went A-Courtin', illus. by Rojankovsky (1955). It's in print!

From Felix Lorioux's Le Buffon des Enfants

From Felix Lorioux's Le Buffon des Enfants

(I think this one made the rounds recently, but I needed to feature it on my blog too!)

From Felix Lorioux's Fables De La Fontaine. Part 1, part 2

From Felix Lorioux's Le Buffon des Enfants

From Artzybasheff's Machinalia (The Rod Mill)

I've had a post in the works featuring As I See, though ASIFA covers this material well

From Einar Norelius' Bland Tomtar Och Troll (1934). Part 1, part 2.

From Einar Norelius' Bland Tomtar Och Troll (1934). Part 1, part 2.

From Einar Norelius' Bland Tomtar Och Troll (1934). Part 1, part 2.

From John Bauer's Bland Tomtar Och Troll (1915)

From Willy Pogany's Mother Goose (1928)

Gustaf Tenggren for Hawthorne's Tanglewood Tales

The site also has a huge amount of comics, animation stills, cartoons, vintage advertisements and other ephemera—it's endlessly wonderful.

comic by Jimmy Swinnerton

comic by Jimmy Swinnerton

From Jimmy Swinnerton, Near to Nature babies (1927)

From Jimmy Swinnerton, Near to Nature babies (1927)

From John Sutherland's Rhapsody of Steel (1959)

You can follow a link to the movie from the above link

Miguel Covarrubias, Senator Smith W. Brookhart & Marlene Dietrich, in Vanity Fair, September 1932

Thanks go to Stephen Worth, the Director of the ASIFA, for sharing these images. Please click the links for more information and images at the archive.